“In practice, it can give an attacker complete control over an individual’s work laptop, despite even the most extensive security measures.”

“The essence of the security issue is that setting a BIOS password, which normally prevents an unauthorized user from booting up the device or making low-level changes to it, does not prevent unauthorized access to the AMT BIOS extension.“

@cwebber Yes, but AMT is still widely deployed. The issue (according to the article) is that TPM can be bypassed easily, which means any intruder can inject traffic into or out of any system with AMT enabled

Encryption won't really help here since the system starts pre-boot. So that's a handy backdoor to intercept your keys too